From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heikki Orsila Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1 Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:44:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20081225114443.GD6115@zakalwe.fi> References: <7v7i5odams.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 25 12:46:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LFofD-0001x5-L3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:46:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751817AbYLYLop (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:44:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751815AbYLYLop (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:44:45 -0500 Received: from zakalwe.fi ([80.83.5.154]:45881 "EHLO zakalwe.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751810AbYLYLoo (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:44:44 -0500 Received: by zakalwe.fi (Postfix, from userid 1023) id 51FA62BBEA; Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:44:43 +0200 (EET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v7i5odams.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:36:27PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with > corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are > available elsewhere. Has anyone written a summary of how Git's redundancy operates? * What would be the probability for a single bit flip to corrupt the repository? * And what is the situation where a single bit flip can not corrupt the database? * When (which commands/functions) is error detection done? Heikki